Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Art Blog: REACH!

I learned a great lesson today. I learned that FEAR of the unknown is nothing to fear at all. Sometimes we push aside opportunities that might change the status quo. I know I have. It is all so comfortable to stay put. We tend to resist change because it will disturb our current reality. It will kick up dust and we might have to cough.

I learned a great lesson today. I learned that change is good. The status quo is comfortable and safe. However, this condition doesn’t mean we are happy. No. It means we are set in our ways. That’s it. Most of us like that set feeling. I know I have in the past. In fact, I have held onto the SAME for all too long. I need changes in order to grow as a person and artist.

I learned a great lesson today. I learned that it is time for me to REACH for new opportunities. It is time for me to REACH for a new reality. It is time for me to REACH my true potential. The status quo is oh so comfortable and safe. However, we all have to REACH for new and challenging opportunities in our art lives. I am doing this right now. Think about this.Maybe you could do this too.

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What is that Goethe quote - whatever you can dream or do? On a completely unrelated topic - have you ever had your palm read? Your palm looks very interesting. I pulled out some of my old books and was trying to read them on the monitor from 2000 miles away. There's an enormous amount of nervous energy in your palm combined with fingers that look very "earth like" and practical

About Me

There are plenty of blogs with ART NEWS. This blog is about the introspective and emotional side of being an artist.
I am an Artist / Painter. I am fighting to have my best ART LIFE! Born in Detroit, I still have "industrial grit" all over me! Earned my B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Wayne State University in the middle of Deee-troit. I am still learning to live and be the artist I was born to be. The Universe has been kind. I am so thankful for the abundance in my life. Yet, I am still learning life lessons daily. Currently, I live and work in an urban, "cabin in the woods" situated in the UNIVERSE. See my work at www.wizzlewolf.com

“Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.”

Richard Wilkins

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“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the workand what’s the work?to ease the pain of living.Everything else, drunkendumbshow”

Allen Ginsberg

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ARTISTS: Never be jealous of other artists if they sell or get attention. What is good for them is good for all. It is like poking a hot coal in a bonfire. After the nudge, everything starts to burn. In other words, we all stay warm!!! :-)

wizzlewolf

(aka: Sheree Rensel)__________

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus

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"Beware of artists - they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous...".

Queen Victoria

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Aristotle

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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -- only a sense of existence." Henry David Thoreau